15. As always don't be afraid to experiment. These are just suggestions to help you achieve sonic nirvana. With today's DAWs and plugins your options are limitless.

Many of the effects being currently used are decades old techniques that were developed early on in the recording revolution.

In the video below Dave shows an "ol' skool" technique that I learned early in my career and that was used in a lot of reggae "Dub" mixes. Units such as the AMS dmx 15-80s were often used for this effect and more.

AMS dmx 15-80s stereo digital delay

He also mentions side-chaining/ducking as a technique that is still used a lot today. Ducking delays work really well on vocals and lead instruments where you want the ends of the notes delayed without cluttering the entire phrase. The PSP Echo is a great ducking delay plug-in from PSPAudioware.

An example of frequency dependent side-chaining is a De-esser. Another example of side-chaining is the side chained gated synths used in a lot of current Dance music.